When comparing Messenger vs Antox, the Slant community recommends Messenger for most people. In the question“What are the best messaging apps for Android?”Messenger is ranked 14th while Antox is ranked 22nd. The most important reason people chose Messenger is:

Pros

Pro

Uses Facebook friends to create a contacts list

Pro

Easy to share posts from Facebook

Integration with Facebook makes it easy to share any interesting posts from the Facebook timeline.

Pro

Read receipts

Can see who has seen each message in group messages.

Pro

Great UI

User interface of the application is clean, intuitive and easy to overview.

Pro

Free, open source

Antox is licensed under Creative Commons with source code available on GitHub. Being open source makes it possible to make sure your messaging are not controlled by a corporation.

Pro

Peer-to-peer

There is no middleman, all communication happens between the users.

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Cons

Con

Lack of privacy

Messenger is owned by Facebook. Based on their privacy policy, this means that any information you provide (including messages sent) are used by Facebook to profile you and sell access to your data to advertisers.

Con

Lack of end-to-end encryption

Secret (end-to-end encrypted) chats are only supported in one-to-one messages, and are not enabled by default, and the encryption has not been verified independently.

Con

No video messages

Currently there is no way to send video messages using Messenger.

Con

High data usage

Antox uses the Tox protocol which is Peer to Peer, so there will be high data usage and battery drain. WiFi only mode is currently recommended for now.

Con

Still in early development

Antox is still really early in development, being in beta currently.

Con

Battery drain

Antox uses the Tox protocol which is Peer to Peer, so there will be high data usage and battery drain.

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